A-Infos (en) Spaine, Regeneration: Second Meeting of Social and Organized Anarchism - A Brief Chronicle (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

On July 25, 26, and 27, platformist organizations met for the Second 
Meeting of Social and Organized Anarchism in Calafou (Vallbona d'Anoia). 
Over three intense days, comrades from different regions shared 
analyses, proposals, concerns, strategies, and emotions. In a context 
marked by the rise of authoritarianism, the exhaustion of reformism, and 
the precariousness of life, we felt even more strongly—if possible—the 
urgency to organize ourselves, to strengthen solid political projects 
rooted in the working class, coordinated, and with a revolutionary vocation.

This second meeting marked a new step forward in our process of 
political articulation, ideological deepening, and organizational 
maturation. We have consolidated spaces for coordination between 
organizations, equipped ourselves with common tools, and, above all, 
strengthened the human and political ties that make it possible for this 
"black forest" we are cultivating to continue growing.

To close the meeting, we shared the collective speech, delivered by two 
Batzac comrades, which summarizes the sentiment of these days and the 
challenges we wish to face.

Closing Speech

Let's lay our cards on the table: We love to look to the past and soak 
up what was, what could have been, the victories and beautiful moments 
that anarchism has carved into the crust of revolutionary history. It's 
beautiful; after all, the red and black thread of anarchism is spun from 
these moments that fill us with hope and push us to continue weaving. As 
our comrade said: "Because they were, we are."

But this admiration for the past often drags us into a professional 
deformation typical of historians. We tend to focus only on the 
beautiful moments, the most spectacular victories and defeats, the ones 
that allow us to dream and justify what we were, and guide us toward 
what can be again. But this particular bias in our perspective is a 
double-edged sword, and as is often the case, we forget the misfortunes, 
the moments that don't transcend, the most humiliating defeats, and the 
simplest and most banal victories.

In my case, I began my anarchist activism in the Joventuts Llibertàries 
de Mallorca—the last JJ.LL. before Batzac—we were a small group of 
motivated kids, with more punk ideas than social and organized 
anarchism. In the wasteland of social struggle that is Mallorca, we 
resisted for about four years, battling with graffiti and public 
appearances. Our activism was based on reclaiming our existence. We 
didn't really know what political impact or revolutionary strategy 
meant. And I'm certainly not wrong if I say that most of us here come 
from that wasteland, if not still in it. We come from squatter 
autonomism, from the movement of doing for the sake of doing, or from 
the theoretical fetishism of educating ourselves, publishing articles or 
political programs with no future beyond. We believe that by knowing the 
Black Flag from cover to cover, we will miraculously solve the mystery 
of the revolution, as if it were a puzzle or an escape room.

Because they were, we are. These moments are also part of the red and 
black thread. These years of existence, lost, with great hope but little 
meaning. These banal moments, which don't transcend, which don't appear 
in books or in articles in Regeneración. We are this too, and I think we 
shouldn't forget it. If we need to look at our most shameful past, it's 
to try to understand it.

But understanding it doesn't mean justifying ourselves or pitying our 
bad luck. Understanding it means trying to overcome it, to see what went 
wrong and fix it, to see what we want to change and what we can learn. 
Understanding this means seeing that we're probably still here for a 
bit, trapped in movement-based, theoretical, or, at worst, aesthetic 
logic. Understanding this means taking real stock of the present, 
debating, and stopping the fetishization of anarchism, which condemns it 
to a 20th-century memory.

But today, and these days we've spent together, remind us of everything 
we've done to emerge from this wasteland:

–In the last year, two plants have sprouted in our black forest: Hedra 
and Xesta.

–In Granada, Impulso has consolidated itself as a core of Liza, making a 
qualitative leap forward.

–Batzac and Embat have joined their Housing Front, and we're moving 
toward greater organizational and political coordination—or whatever it 
may be.

–Furthermore, thanks to the Relations Commission and the various common 
spaces, despite our setbacks and friction, we've managed to chart a 
path, a direction. A path that branches out into the FARO with the aim 
of making a qualitative leap for our political base.

We have achieved a lot, dedicating time of our lives to this difficult 
but beautiful path.

Today, we continue to cultivate the emotions that filled us here a year 
ago: the joy of moving forward, the excitement of finding ourselves, the 
desire for it to work, the fear that it won't, and the responsibility to 
fulfill our duty to history. But this fear, this responsibility, drives 
us to proceed with caution, to walk through our forest, to shape it the 
way we want and change with it, to inhabit it with love.

We have done much, dedicating time of our lives to the difficult but 
beautiful path of the Revolution. Because we believe it is possible, 
because we know it, because the class struggle never ceases, and we are 
convinced that Anarchism is the most beautiful expression of social 
freedom. Therefore, let us continue, let us not forget the red and black 
thread that precedes us, the good and bad moments of our history.

We have been imbued with enthusiasm, emotion, and vitality. And now, as 
we return home, we will continue exploring our forest and we will 
continue to push aside the branches that impede our path. Dark storms 
are approaching. Let us advance carefully, let us continue weaving 
together to build the Anarchism of the 21st century together. We will 
plant the seeds of the Revolution in the vast fields of social struggle, 
so that when we meet again we will be more trees, stronger, and more 
united. Long live Organized Social Anarchism!

End of speech.

The Second Meeting was not a point of arrival, but a new step on a long 
road ahead. We have emerged from Calafou with greater clarity, strength, 
and a greater sense of complicity, but also with greater demands. That 
is why we continue to advance toward the consolidation of our own 
political space, one of an internationalist, anti-authoritarian, and 
revolutionary character. We continue to advance so that our class may 
recover its capacity for Organization, Strike, and Revolution.

We know that organization is no guarantee of victory, but we also know 
that without organization, there is no real possibility of challenging 
the ruling classes for power or building emancipatory alternatives. 
Because anarchism is not nostalgia, nor dead poetry, nor an ideological 
fetish, nor an abstract philosophical idea: it is a living tool, a 
collective praxis, a horizon that flourishes in everyday struggles.

Regeneración Editorial Staff.

https://www.regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/08/05/ii-encuentro-del-anarquismo-social-y-organizado/
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